They used the words "shill", "left-wing" and "blogosphere". Then they mentioend the RIAA. That's as close as you can come to a Godwin violation without mentioning Historical German leaders.
might makes right? Might defends your rights. All government relies on force as a final means of enforcement. If you refuse the fines, they throw you in jail. If you refuse to be thrown in jail, they shoot you.
You can claim to have the right to run naked through the streets waving a bazooka and beating on passers-by, but unless someone is willing to insure that right, by force if necessary, that right does not exist.
I can't even understand where someone would need to talk to an accountant unless you've done some pretty fucked up stuff during the year.
My mother-in-law is a tax accountant, and you would not believe some of the weird stuff she has to deal with. People can mess up their finances to an amazing degree. She breathes a sigh of relief when we bring in our forms/receipts and she breezes through the whole thing in 10 minutes.
Oh, and she DOES offer a guarantee. If she messes up your taxes, she paysthe fine. You still have to pay the taxes, but she will cover the penalties.
And they then have the ability to throw you into a prison for life. No right exists unless you have the means to defend it, or someone else is willing to defend that right in your name.
It's a chicken/egg problem for me. I don't use metric in everyday situations because I don't have an intuitive feel for the units. But I don't have an intuitive feel for the units because I don't use them every day. But that would be naturally remedied if we just got on with it and converted.
And that would have probably happened back in the 70's when they pushed hard for it, except the people who made the "educational material" had no skill in convincing people it was a good idea. They made the metric system look like a giant pain in the ass. They would convert 3 feet to 91.44 centimeters, implying that somehow metric forces you to be that precise. Three feet is one meter in almost every non-technical circumstance you are likely to encounter. How often do you tell someone that the living room is 10 feet 8.97 inches long? You say ten-and-a-half feet.
I don't even think I'd have much of a problem with any part of the metric system except Celsius. I'd have to convert back to Fahrenheit for quite a while. I know that if it's 45F outside, I need a jacket. If you tell me it's 31C outside I have no idea what to wear until I convert it to 87F and go get some shorts.
As with most articles like this, hitting the 'print' link brings up the article all on one page with less advertising. Except, of course, for the article itself which is 100% product placement.
You should note that the first story is the creation of the world, while the second story is the creation of a garden. They are two separate creations.
And I don't believe these stories are supposed to be taken literally, anyway (Christian does not automatically mean creationist). They were teaching stories written during the Babylonian exile. The Tower of Babel story is essentially ridiculing the religion of their masters.
If they get even closer, other forces probably come into play. The exact details are beyond my knowledge (interested in physics, but only a few classes that touch on this.)
I would guess that the Weak force would force them apart when they get really really close.
Or your notion of charged quarks could be correct.
The force that causes "one atom to collide with another" is electromagnetism. When the electron clouds of two atoms get too close, the like charges of the electrons repel each other. This only happens when the atoms get really close, because more than a few (whatever unit it is. Picometers?) away, the entire atom is essentially electromagnetically neutral. Assuming it's not an ion. But if you get close enough, the field of the electrons is stronger than the field of the protons. So, when two atoms bump into each other, the electromagnetic forces push them apart again.
I mis-read the headline as "The state of Hebrew on Consoles", which
would have been just as interesting. The right-to-left reading would be
a challenge.
Of course, it's possible this challenge has been met already. Not being
a Hebrew-speaker, I never looked into it.
I got FiOS about six months ago, and yes, they did remove the copper. However, if I decide to go with a different company for phone service, Verizon will have to give them access to the fiber connection.
I asked about this specifically.
BTW: My uptime has been MUCH better than it was with Comcast.
Some business magazine said Burger King Burgers are really yummy and only losers eat at McDonalds. Furthermore, all of the really cool kids hang out at Burger King now.
>The really odd thing is if you ever need to go >there for a legit reason, once your passed the >security doors there are colored lines on the >floor. You are told to follow a particular color >which then leads to another security door with a >phone to gain access. I've always wondered where >the other colors go . ..
If the people who drew them are the same people who wrote the tests for PHYS152, the lines probably lead to the lair of an undergraduate eating TA.
The question was so incredibly biased towards the anti-Microsoft response that the entire survey is worthless.
The question is akin to asking "Grull Shampoo has been said to cause massive internal bleeding and is rumored to be made by Al Quaeda members. Do you plan to switch to Snorf Shampoo?" Of course people are more likely to say they will switch.
That almpost entirely depends on who you are. If you are a user of the end product, you probably shouldn't care one way or the other about the code. The fact that they used one style or another means squat so long as it runs correctly and fast enough for your purposes.
If your job is to maintain that code, then you want the original designer to be consciencious and write in such a way that you can figure out just what the hell he was thinking. There are several excellent guides to writing maintainable software out there.
>Finally, is it possible for two different programmers to look at the same source code and have >strongly differing opinions about its quality, or is it a pretty much agreed upon criteria?
No, two people could look at code and have wildly diverging opinions about it. Coding is still more of an art than a science. There are definitely camps out there who are mutually antagonistic. Write object oriented code and show it to a sequential programmer and he'll scream bloody murder about inefficieny. Do the opposite and the OOP guy will have a fit about the lack of extendability. The functional programmers will just be left out in the cold because they're still considered radicals.;)
There are lots of criteria for writing good code, and for the most part they all violently disagree with most of the others.
MCI has a wonderful policy of charging you at least $5 (now $10) no matter how much you used them during the month. I switched carriers a while back and MCI refused to believe it. For a time I was paying MCI $5/month to do NOTHING. I had to get the other company to send them a letter telling them to knock it off.
>Defensible? You have news of an impending civil war or something? What would one of the central/western >states defend against that they would need "defensible" borders?..
If it's Colorado you're talking about, they'd defend themselves from the invasion of the Californians.
> It's not necessarily a big money loss. When NASA >first threw everything they had at going into space, >the creativity boom was something we've benefitted >from for years. Ever use velcro? It came about >because of NASA.
Whenever the benefits of the Apollo program are listed, it's always stuff like Velcro, Teflon, and Tang. Well, how about adding every piece of electronics on the planet? The Apollo program was a major driver in the miniaturization of electronics. It started Moore's Law!
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Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" is an absolute essential. Read it. Then read it again. Do what he says.
This book gives the basic foundation of how to program instead of teaching you how to operate the latest GUI or how to generate the latest buzz-language. It should not be optional for any computer science curriculum.
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They used the words "shill", "left-wing" and "blogosphere". Then they mentioend the RIAA. That's as close as you can come to a Godwin violation without mentioning Historical German leaders.
You can claim to have the right to run naked through the streets waving a bazooka and beating on passers-by, but unless someone is willing to insure that right, by force if necessary, that right does not exist.
My mother-in-law is a tax accountant, and you would not believe some of the weird stuff she has to deal with. People can mess up their finances to an amazing degree. She breathes a sigh of relief when we bring in our forms/receipts and she breezes through the whole thing in 10 minutes.
Oh, and she DOES offer a guarantee. If she messes up your taxes, she paysthe fine. You still have to pay the taxes, but she will cover the penalties.
And they then have the ability to throw you into a prison for life.
No right exists unless you have the means to defend it, or someone
else is willing to defend that right in your name.
It's a chicken/egg problem for me. I don't use metric in everyday situations because I don't have an intuitive feel for the units. But I don't have an intuitive feel for the units because I don't use them every day. But that would be naturally remedied if we just got on with it and converted.
And that would have probably happened back in the 70's when they pushed hard for it, except the people who made the "educational material" had no skill in convincing people it was a good idea. They made the metric system look like a giant pain in the ass. They would convert 3 feet to 91.44 centimeters, implying that somehow metric forces you to be that precise. Three feet is one meter in almost every non-technical circumstance you are likely to encounter. How often do you tell someone that the living room is 10 feet 8.97 inches long? You say ten-and-a-half feet.
I don't even think I'd have much of a problem with any part of the metric system except Celsius. I'd have to convert back to Fahrenheit for quite a while. I know that if it's 45F outside, I need a jacket. If you tell me it's 31C outside I have no idea what to wear until I convert it to 87F and go get some shorts.
As with most articles like this, hitting the 'print' link brings up the article all on one page with less advertising. Except, of course, for the article itself which is 100% product placement.
You should note that the first story is the creation of the world, while the second story is the creation of a garden. They are two separate creations.
And I don't believe these stories are supposed to be taken literally, anyway (Christian does not automatically mean creationist). They were teaching stories written during the Babylonian exile. The Tower of Babel story is essentially ridiculing the religion of their masters.
If they get even closer, other forces probably come into play. The exact details are beyond my knowledge (interested in physics, but only a few classes that touch on this.)
I would guess that the Weak force would force them apart when they get really really close.
Or your notion of charged quarks could be correct.
The force that causes "one atom to collide with another" is electromagnetism. When the electron clouds of two atoms get too close, the like charges of the electrons repel each other. This only happens when the atoms get really close, because more than a few (whatever unit it is. Picometers?) away, the entire atom is essentially electromagnetically neutral. Assuming it's not an ion. But if you get close enough, the field of the electrons is stronger than the field of the protons. So, when two atoms bump into each other, the electromagnetic forces push them apart again.
I mis-read the headline as "The state of Hebrew on Consoles", which would have been just as interesting. The right-to-left reading would be a challenge.
Of course, it's possible this challenge has been met already. Not being a Hebrew-speaker, I never looked into it.
I got FiOS about six months ago, and yes, they did remove the copper.
However, if I decide to go with a different company for phone service,
Verizon will have to give them access to the fiber connection.
I asked about this specifically.
BTW: My uptime has been MUCH better than it was with Comcast.
Some business magazine said Burger King Burgers are really yummy and only losers eat at McDonalds. Furthermore, all of the really cool kids hang out at Burger King now.
Looks like Slashdot already turned their server into
a zombie.
>The really odd thing is if you ever need to go .
>there for a legit reason, once your passed the
>security doors there are colored lines on the
>floor. You are told to follow a particular color
>which then leads to another security door with a
>phone to gain access. I've always wondered where
>the other colors go . .
If the people who drew them are the same people who wrote the
tests for PHYS152, the lines probably lead to the lair of an
undergraduate eating TA.
From the headline, it appears that AT&T has patented the letter 'e'.
The question was so incredibly biased towards the anti-Microsoft response
that the entire survey is worthless.
The question is akin to asking "Grull Shampoo has been said to cause massive
internal bleeding and is rumored to be made by Al Quaeda members. Do you plan to
switch to Snorf Shampoo?" Of course people are more likely to say they will
switch.
They have to send 63 death messages to 64 players.
63x64 = 4032. (You already know you died)
> What makes code good or bad?
;)
That almpost entirely depends on who you are. If you are a user of the end product,
you probably shouldn't care one way or the other about the code. The fact that they
used one style or another means squat so long as it runs correctly and fast enough
for your purposes.
If your job is to maintain that code, then you want the original designer to
be consciencious and write in such a way that you can figure out just what the
hell he was thinking. There are several excellent guides to writing maintainable
software out there.
>Finally, is it possible for two different programmers to look at the same source code and have
>strongly differing opinions about its quality, or is it a pretty much agreed upon criteria?
No, two people could look at code and have wildly diverging opinions about
it. Coding is still more of an art than a science. There are definitely camps
out there who are mutually antagonistic. Write object oriented code and
show it to a sequential programmer and he'll scream bloody murder about
inefficieny. Do the opposite and the OOP guy will have a fit about the lack of
extendability. The functional programmers will just be left out in the
cold because they're still considered radicals.
There are lots of criteria for writing good code, and for the most part
they all violently disagree with most of the others.
MCI has a wonderful policy of charging you at least $5 (now $10) no matter
how much you used them during the month. I switched carriers a while back and
MCI refused to believe it. For a time I was paying MCI $5/month to do NOTHING.
I had to get the other company to send them a letter telling them to knock it
off.
They'll probably have to change the name to "Lapster".
Does this mean children under the age of twelve shouldn't be allowed in the front seat of planet earth?
>Defensible? You have news of an impending civil war or something? What would one of the central/western
>states defend against that they would need "defensible" borders?..
If it's Colorado you're talking about, they'd defend themselves from the invasion of the Californians.
> It's not necessarily a big money loss. When NASA
>first threw everything they had at going into space,
>the creativity boom was something we've benefitted
>from for years. Ever use velcro? It came about
>because of NASA.
Whenever the benefits of the Apollo program are listed, it's always stuff like Velcro, Teflon, and Tang. Well, how about adding every piece of electronics on the planet? The Apollo program was a major driver in the miniaturization of electronics. It started Moore's Law!
Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" is an absolute essential. Read it. Then read it again. Do what he says.
This book gives the basic foundation of how to program instead of teaching you how to operate the latest GUI or how to generate the latest buzz-language. It should not be optional for any computer science curriculum.
When I read the subject, the first thought that popped into my head was "885 GHz! Holy cow, how did they do that?"
Then I noticed the rest of the writeup and the small "g". Darn.